My local pub has run out of my favorite food. I've had to order something else... my writing ritual is ruined 😭 farewell my productivity! 🧟

You may have seen unknowable evils in the shadows of vast cyclopean monoliths but what uncaring creature from the stars created this abomination?

Dear Twitter bots You have a greater chance of success with fake pet accounts than naked ladies. Please up your game.

Today I've had a sick cat, gone to the pub, been sprayed with liquid nitrogen (by a medical professional) and written 605 words on my current #WIP. 4/10 day, could be better 👻👍

Morning #WritingCommunity what are we all using for bookmarks today? Tiny demon number 1 kindly handed me this saying "daddy this doesn't belong in your book" 🤦‍♂️

I may look like I am commuting to the city but my mind is trapped in misty woodland trying to give flesh to a horror for Thin Veil Press

Tiny Demon one found a deceased bee and declared this morning that "bees liked skin" that's a tenuous enough link to reshare this anthology 👻

First draft of my latest short story clocks in at 1800 words. Time to flesh out those early paragraphs which are definitely not as good as the latter. New Chromebook arriving tomorrow, so I won't have to edit in my office and can relax on the sofa!

It's my first day off in a long while. Time to read and write about some weird woods

That nervous moment where you hit send on a story and it's no longer in your control but you kinda love the endorphin rush.

It's #thirstytypingthursday which is my just now coined phrase where I go to the pub on a Thursday night and write the drafts of short stories. But I just submitted a story 😱 so I've got 4 hours to come up with inspiration. Help me #writingcommunity 🦖

I found my inspiration for the next short story in this image, although the actual story bears no relationship beyond a single detail firing the imagination. Not a bad evening! Plan and 600 words started on the new short story - Resonance.

Today's research what is an Otolaryngologist, what do they do and do I need one in my story...

Tonight I am trying to convey the intense emotions of how a man with acute hearing trauma is going to disintegrate because of angry cherubs

Dialogue between a witch and monks who have taken vows of silence is, unsurprisingly, one-sided and lacking in tension *backs quickly out of this corner I've written myself in to"

It's been a while since my last #thirstytypingthursday had a lot of plague, family time and so forth. But back in the pub and finished the first draft of a raving short story "words in my flesh". Which is a first person raving from a possessed serial killer on death row.

Submitted a short story today. Taking this win, as motivation has been low of late (I blame plague season 🤧)

Skeleton Crew! Don't forget to buy our horror anthology, SKIN, before the end of the year. All 2024 profits will got to a skin cancer charity. Available as e-book and paperback from all the usual places. mybook.to/PAPERBACKSKIN

I love the Christmas ghost story! Man-size in marble is a brilliant story and Laura's fear of having to wash dishes is something we all share as adults 😜

Second donation made, £150 to Cancer Research UK. Thank you again to all writers and readers who made our SKIN anthology possible. Purchase links: mybook.to/PAPERBACKSKIN (paperback) mybook.to/EBOOKSKIN (e-book) (Writers: please visit our website for our current call!)